Re: problem with backup stgpool and maxprocess=2

tapes. When we start the backup stgpool with maxpr=2, it usually starts copying 2 input tapes to 2 output tapes. But we occasionally see a media wait situation where both processes want to copy from the same input tape. TSM Support told me this is normal. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219

Re: problem with backup stgpool and maxprocess=2

understanding (which could be wrong) is that mostly you get lucky and it mounts two input tapes and two output tapes, but occasionally you get both processes trying to read the same input tape. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington

Offsite reclamation questions

, since the lower threshold might actually mean we have less chance to get any tapes fully reclaimed. Any thoughts? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device still

Database backup strategy?

? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits

Re: Database backup strategy?

. ;) That's not the recovery site; it's just where the DR tapes are stored. But it's still nice; if we have a disaster, we just have to walk over there and find the tapes to ship them to the hotsite. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky

What causes missed events?

to explain why it doesn't execute. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers

Re: Need ideas for offsite copy of HSM tapes

the complete client data directory in the event of a disaster? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions

Need ideas for offsite copy of HSM tapes

, one offsite) of the data. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers

Re: Need ideas for offsite copy of HSM tapes

expires this summer so it will be replaced with something, don't know what yet, but it will probably be some flavor of AIX. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device

Re: Need ideas for offsite copy of HSM tapes

in that pool. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete

Re: OS390 TSM Performance questions.

paging to a point where overall system performance goes down the toilet if you don't have sufficient real memory to back it. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete

Re: Need advice on dealing with unreadable tape

hope that the user doesn't change his mind and decide he needs them back. I'll do the audit and let it delete the entries. Thanks for the advice. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: summary-table

/ patches/client/v4r2/ ` and then platform and the v423 directory or folder. For the V4.2 Win98/Me platform only, the fixtest is 4.2.3.2. These fixtests must be used in conjunction with the server fix. I haven't tried to apply any of the indicated fixes. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219

Re: Discrepancy between select * from summary and dsmaccnt.log

that describe this are IC33840 for the client and IC34693 for the TSM server. Both a client fix and a server fix need to be applied. That might be what's causing your problem. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506

Need advice on dealing with unreadable tape

to assume they might be active and get new backups of them. If I just delete the volume, with discarddata=yes, and the backups are active versions, will that force TSM to realize it no longer has an active backup of those files, and back them up again the next time the node is backed up? -- Matt

Re: Need advice on dealing with unreadable tape

, thanks. Am I correct in assuming that purging the DB entries will force new backups if those are the active versions? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete

Re: How to check utilization of your storagepools automaticly

tapes, you might get bit like we did. Use one of the sample scripts that other people have posted here that actually counts the volumes in the storage pool and lists that count along with the max scratch count. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University

Re: Stability of TSM

At 11:16 -0500 1/8/03, Nelson Kane wrote: I would like to know, from everyone's experience, what version is the most stable thus far? We asked IBM that question a few months ago. They promised to get us an answer quickly. We never got one. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall

Re: Format of output file using select statements

a little Rube Goldbergish, and I'm a little worried that it might break if something in the output changes. I think I already know the answer (No), but does anybody know of a way to keep that stuff from appearing in the output, instead of finding it and throwing it away afterwards? -- Matt

Re: tape length issues

worked and didn't give us challenges like this. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions

Re: 3584 library loading

, instead of waiting for a bunch of commands, then putting one tape away, totally mangling the next (see earlier post), and leaving the others in the door so that the operators mistakenly think they are ejected DR tapes and send them to the offsite storage facility. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390

Re: 4.2.3 Upgradedb - ??

. How do we know which version upgrades require an upgradedb? And what happens if we don't do it? TSM still seems to be running OK .. or as close to OK as it ever gets. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto

Re: Moving TSM Tapes from One Tape Management System to Another

with volume ids already in use on the system you're moving to. But if there's no overlap, you should just be able to define your existing TSM tapes in the CA-1 database. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL

Cleanup backupgroups, system objects

GRABTHAR BkupSYSTEM4BACKUPONS- 106,465 13,598.7613,598.76 OBJECT ITE The pieces just don't seem to be fitting together. What am I missing? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University

Re: Cleanup backupgroups,

guy who has been dragged into the TSM/Solaris world because our management doesn't like reliable systems. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device still used

Re: check on allowed scratch tapes!

count used instead of percent, but if you really want that, there's probably a way to select volumes and count them -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe -- An obsolete device still

Safe to backup DB while client backups running?

a client backup from starting after the DB backup starts. If that's true, are we just wasting time spinning our wheels waiting for a window when no backups are running to start the DB backup? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Re: volumes inaccessible

quite figured out what releases this problem exists in, or where it gets fixed, but it's a known problem and the circumvention is to restart the TSM server. Reference APARs PQ61907, PQ55669 IC32821 IC32822 IC32823 IC32824 -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300

Re: TSM reliability

, they haven't been able to recommend a good release. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions

Re: drm operator scripts

, but it sure seems like it does. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers

Re: drm operator scripts

, and he told me to ask other customers). -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers

Re: drm operator scripts

. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits

Re: drm operator scripts

is not a pleasant thought. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers

Re: drm operator scripts

. Moving them to OnsiteRetrieve, which disappears them, just seems like an unnecessary and dangerous step. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe -- An obsolete device still used

Re: drm operator scripts

, and generate commands to check them in. If the checkin is successful, then I presumably have all my tapes back, and can move the whole list to OnsiteRetrieve. If the checkin fails, I need to go looking for tapes. Does this make sense? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900

Re: Co-location

has already exceeded the allocation that IBM told us was way bigger than we'd ever need, and we haven't even finished the installation yet. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe

Re: Co-location

is to have it in a different disk pool. We'd really like to avoid carving up our disk space into more smaller pools. But, as far as I can tell, that's the only way to use colocation selectively. Am I missing something, or is that the way it works? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall

Re: Audit Library question.

. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits

Re: Audit Library question.

a problem reading a barcode label, that tape can be mounted in a tape drive to verify - even if using checkl=b. But how can it have a problem reading the barcode label if check-=b doesn't even try to read the labels? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300

Re: RAID5 in TSM

have backups. The chances of that are pretty slim, and I can't imagine any scenario where we could have a RAID failure that wouldn't leave us so dead that we'd have to restore anyway. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Re: Audit Library question.

internal memory. But I don't know if that's a limitation in the library or TSM. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:msimpson;uky.edu mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies

Cleanup Backgroups and upgrade 4.2.2.0 to ??

to 5.1.? Or can we go straight to 5.1.? and then run the Cleanup? I also saw a message suggesting that maybe the system objects bug had returned in 5.1.5.1, but haven't seen any more discussion about that. Any advice or horror stories would be muchly appreciated. -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support

Re: cleanup backupgroups

that this systems objects problem is contributing to our db size problem? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions